Show REAL REFORM alie deveret news is a very conservative paper it seems to fear that the country rests upon a burning volcano and that some indiscreet person may open the damper and allow alie smothered embee to burst forth in all their fury we herewith an editorial from laet nighta news in full while the news tells the yet we believe the 1 of the american people is a sufficient regulator to guage even the great discontent die content and poverty now actually existing the news bays wealth or its possession is not a crime any more than abject poverty is an exalted virtue riches honestly or legitimately acquired even if accidentally may be and frequently is associated with the most profoundly bene dicent conduct j bet aa numerous and grave crimes are perpetrated and flour ieh among those whose life is passed in a condition of enforced want and destitution it is fashionable just now to rail at wealth as though the classes were altogether for the ills that afflict the body politic and it is popular to laud the toiling maseeh as their plans and demands whether reasonable or insane were going effect a complete and instantaneous cure yet the masses would be still worse off it aliers were no capitalists and no corporations with the strength to carry out great undertakings and to immense enterprises alie rich man can live without the poor mans aid easier than alio poor man can live without the rich man what disturbs more than anything lee the woolda industrial equanimity ie the distrust eliat capital and labor feel for each other not the fact that afeie men are born rich and others get rich while some aro naturally poor and others get poor 0 cauree in tho perfected docial Bye tein there will be neither grinding grin dint want on the one hand nor pompous luxury ou tho other but as long as thero are brains to plan will have to bo hands to execute as lone there are resources to direct there will have to bo obedience to fulfill and your true reformer during theeo troublous times is alie man who senses this fact this interdependence of caalim and brawn this mutuality of benefit from celoso and friendly relation between the two and who to bring them more nearby together and upon a more intelligent footing not he who combines the one in ironbound iron bound grasping merciless resistance to the cry for bread or inflames the other into bloodthirsty of primate rights and destruction el berbon and property pio perty |